I just returned from a trip to Vancouver Island and was processing the chinook fillets. As I was filleting one of the fish I noticed about 6 white circles about the size of a quarter on his skin. It wasn't discolored but just had a dark circle line like a somebody had put a quarter on him and traced the outline. Then as I was rinsing the fillets to package, I noticed these white lumps in the meat. They were about the size of large pinto beans and when cut a white liquid came out. In thirty five years of catching and eating salmon I have never saw such a thing. Any ideas on what this might have been??????

I have found those white things in coho I have caught on the Chehalis. Some one talked about them on this forum. I thought they were sorta of gross. I always gave that fillet to my fishing partner. They never made him sick !